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if you are Muslim in Afghanistan don't plan on any big life changes.

A man there wants to convert to Christianity and the court says that under Sharia he will be executed.  What is it with these people? The man wants to change religions.  Free people do it all the time. 

I'm told Islam is tolerant. First cartoons now this.  What's up?

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I got this idea from an editorial in a Jordanian newspaper, Shihane, which also reprinted the Dreaded Danish cartoons.  The editorial said, "Muslims of the world, be reasonable… what brings more prejudice against Islam, these caricatures or pictures of a hostage-taker slashing the throat of his victim in front of the cameras or a suicide bomber who blows himself up during a wedding ceremony in Amman?"

The editor, Jihad Momani, was fired and arrested.

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CNN pixilated the cartoons that set off a world wide Muslim temper tantrum. If the cartoons are a distortion of Muhammad then CNN has distorted a distortion.  Guess we'll never know what all the fuss was about.

Most of the mainstream media in the U.S., other than Fox News, the Philadelphia Inquirer, and the New York Sun, took a pass on showing the cartoons. Editor and Publisher has a story on the media refusal to publish the cartoons. 

It seems a little arrogant for a religion to demand that the whole world play by its rules. And a little wimpy for most of the American media to go along with it.

Christopher Hitchens considers the incident proof of "an aggressive intent".

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The membership of the Association of American Editorial cartoonists frets about the declining importance of editorial cartoons.  After a recent round of cartoonist sackings the AAEC organized a cartoon protest called Black Ink Monday. World-wide rioting failed to materialize

Meanwhile, the Jyllands-Posten, a  newspaper in Denmark, commissioned cartoons of Muhammad. World-wide rioting big time.

Investors Business Daily thinks "the controversy has brought to a head the long-anticipated clash of civilizations".  IBD, by the way, now employs one of those recently sacked cartoonists, Mike Ramirez, late of the L.A. Times.

Buck up, fellow AAEC members.

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Palestinian voters face the same problem as Americans.  Not much to choose from  political partywise.  We have Democrats and Republicans but they're all members of the Beltway / K street coalition of perpetual office holding.  Still, every so often, voters do rise up and throw the bums out.

Palestinians have Fatah and Hamas  - the corruption party and the terrorist party.  Perpetual office holding for Fatah ran up against its limits when Yasir Arafat assumed room temperature. Fatah hacks gobbled up foreign aid donations like they were Indian casino kickbacks.  Plus they couldn't fix the streets or control the street thugs.  So the voters threw the bums out and replaced them with more disciplined, higher octane terrorists.  Hamas actually can make the trains run on time.  Whether it can wipe out Israel, a major plank in its platform,  remains to be seen. 

One thing is sure.  If Hamas wants to govern it will have to survive the victory party.

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Pat Robertson offered a few words about Ariel Sharon's stroke on his 700 Club show last Thursday: "He was dividing God's land, and I would say, 'Woe unto any prime
minister of Israel who takes a similar course to appease the [European
Union], the United Nations or the United States of America.'"  He also said, "God says, 'This land belongs to me, and you'd better leave it alone."

In seperate comments, Iranian president President Mahmoud Ahmadinejad carried that line of reasoning a step further saying, "Hopefully, the news that the criminal of Sabra and Chatilla has joined his ancestors is final."

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Muslim head scarves were banned in French schools a while back. Europe's growing Muslim population isn't going mainstream. In the Chicago Sun Times Mark Steyn observes that Europeans have to deal with an "alienated domestic population". "All we have to do is straighten out Iraq."

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Welcome to my new blog. It is called Bokbluster. My previous archive site is still available here. To see the full size version of the Bokbluster cartoon click the thumbnail.

An added menace to the new site is my ability to include written commentary. Even more menacing, you can throw in your 2 cents by clicking the "comments" link below.  Cartoons can be searched by category from today's cartoon forward.  There are close to 2000 cartoons in the old archive.  Until the magic gnomes show up to move them, that's where they will stay.